Essay on Consciousness and Its Influence on Human Mind
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Essay on Consciousness and Its Influence on Human Mind
Added on 2020-06-05
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Why are we conscious?
Consciousness refers to the quality of being aware of any external objects or somethingwithin oneself. In accordance with this context, this essay will shed light on the consciousnessand how it influences the thought process of human mind and behaviour. The two theories whichare Functional and Global Workspace Theory of consciousness will be compared in this essaythat describes the consciousness effectively. The types and forms of consciousness will beassessed and analysed in this essay.About ConsciousnessPerceptions, thoughts, feeling of awareness in a human being is referred asconsciousness. It is nearly impossible to provide exact definition to consciousness.Consciousness is very complex term and is difficult to assessed. It is related with psychology ofliving beings and varies from different living beings (Roediger, and Craik, 2014). Philosophersand researchers examining the consciousness and why human being are conscious. It is thespiritual, psychological and emotional sensation that experienced by an individual. There arefour main topics on which the philosophers described consciousness. Those four terms areknowledge in general, intentionally, introspection and phenomenal experience. Philosophersconsiders the consciousness as the unitary approach which is comprehended intuitively bymajority of people in spite of the issue of defining it. Consciousness concept is ambiguous anddifficult to understand. Thus, consciousness is the ability which helps an individual to decide thatwhat is right thing and what is wrong thing. (Churchland, 2013). Since the rise of technologicaldevelopments and improvements, psychologists now able to analyse the consciousness in anindividual efficiently. It is the degree of feel and emotions which possess by the individual.Researchers and philosophers proposed various theories which explained and investigate theconsciousness in an individual. Philosophers have described two types of consciousness whichare known as P-consciousness (phenomenal consciousness) and A-consciousness (accessconsciousness). Phenomenal consciousness refers to the raw experience of an individual whichincludes sounds, forms of colours, sensation, emotions and feeling with their bodies. Theseexperience considered independently of any impact on behaviour and are known as qualia(Cohen, and Schooler, 2014). Whereas access consciousness refers to the phenomena ofperceiving, introspective, processing and remembering the information in our minds.Philosophers considered these as hard problem of consciousness. There four forms ofconsciousness discovered by the philosophers and researchers. Sensory experience, practical1
consciousness, reflective consciousness and reflexive consciousness are the four forms ofconsciousness. (Davidson,, Schwartz and Shapiro, 2013). The phenomenal sense that somethingexists in relation to or has an impact on a person is known as sensory consciousness. Practicalconsciousness refers knowing how to do things and knowing how to move on. It is also known asbasic to human engagement. Reflective consciousness refers to the modality in which anindividual reflect upon the fist two form. It is the day to day thinking of human beings in whichthey decide what to do and what is to be done. An individual experience reflexive consciousness where he or she reflects on the basis ofreflection and inspecting the nature of knowing in the context of constitutive conditions of livingbeing. Human beings are social creatures who lives and adapts the culture of the surroundings. Inorder to increases the interpersonal relationships with other human beings, an individual alwaysmakes communication first by considering the fact that another person is conscious (Smallwoodand Schooler, 2015). In order to adjust in the environment appropriate coordination is required.Thus, in order to predict what someone else might do based upon what an individual think. Inthis context, an individual assumes the other person is conscious and that is why he or she is alsoconscious. In order to increase the interaction in the community it is important for a human beingto be consciousness.Functional and Global Workspace Theory of ConsciousnessFunctionalism is a view in the theory of the mind. It refers to the mental andpsychological state of mind which includes beliefs, desires, being in pain, etc. An essential partof some accounts, functionalism is the idea of multiple realisability (Chrisley and Sloman, 2016).It refers to the psychological state and the thought process of an individual which takes place inhis or her mind or brain. The Functional Specification Theory developed by David Lewis andDavid Malet Armstrong states that mental states are particular realisers of the functional role. Functional Specification Theory do not allow for the multiple collection of theory ofmental states, because it considered the brain mental state is vital and essential. Integratedinformation theory is the other version of functionalism theory. The integrated informationtheory states that the level of consciousness of a system at a time is a matter of how manypossible states it has at that time and how tightly integrated its states are (Barrett, 2016). BernardBaars developed the Global Workforce Theory which states that there is neutral networkapproach where competition exists between coalitions and neural which includes both sensory2
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